December 18, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingVideo highlights fellow’s work in Transcription Centre archive Samantha Pinto came to the Ransom Center as a fellow from Georgetown University to work on her project “Africa, (Re)Circulated: Cosmopolitan Performances of Mid-Century Modernity.” Pinto’s research, which focuses on the United States’s perception of Africa, involved documents and multimedia components from the Transcription Centre archive. The materials from the… read more
December 17, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFinal days to see "I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America" The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America runs through January 6, 2013, and explores the life and career of American stage and industrial designer, futurist, and urban planner Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958). The Ransom Center Galleries are closed Mondays and on Christmas Eve Day, Christmas… read more
December 13, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsCurator discusses Norman Bel Geddes’s influence in video Donald Albrecht, exhibition organizer and curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, discusses industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes’s influence on the American landscape. Albrecht—editor of Norman Bel Geddes Designs America (Abrams)—emphasizes the breadth of the Bel Geddes collection at the Ransom Center, which… read more
